“And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s: it is holy unto the Lord.”
A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord. The tithe — the tenth of the land's agricultural produce — belongs to the Lord: it is holy to the Lord. The tithe that belongs to God is not a vow but an obligation: the community does not choose to give the tithe, it acknowledges that the tenth is already God's. Malachi 3:10 says bring the whole tithe into the storehouse — the tithe of Leviticus 27:30 is the tithe that Malachi calls Israel to honor and the tithe that the New Testament's giving principle of proportional generosity reflects.
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